Right, well had I noticed that this 2014 movie titled "Exists" was from the director of "The Blairwitch Project", then I might have skipped on it entirely.
When I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2014 movie "Exists" from writers Jamie Nash and Eduardo Sánchez, I only knew that it was a movie about bigfoot. And already with that fact there was an alarm going off at the back of my mind, because the vast majority of movies I've seen revolving around bigfoot or sasquatch have been of questionable quality. So I have to admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations or hopes to "Exists".
The storyline in the movie is pretty straight forward, and yeah this is just another 'found footage' movie. On the plus side, if you enjoy 'found footage' movies then you're in for a treat. However, if you, much like me, enjoy proper movie and not something you could have filmed yourself, then you might want to skip "Exists". In fact, if you opt to sit down and watch "Exists", just watch the last 20 minutes of the movie, because the 61 minutes prior to that was just pointless filler of showing glimpses and out of focus shots of the bigfoot in between your archetypical young people venturing into the remote forest.
This was a very generic and stereotypical movie in every sense, and by no means a memorable moment in cinema history.
Visually then "Exists" wasn't something to write home about. Throughout the first 61 minutes of the movie, all you get are hazy, out of focus, obscured by darkness and brief glimses of the creature in question. And that is something you would expect from a low budget early 1980s horror movie, not something from 2014. However, during the last 20 minutes of the movie, things start to pick up, and you get proper footage of the bigfoot. And I have to say that the costume was actually not too shabby. But by then, it was just too little, too late, because you've will have been lulled into a comatose state by the previous 61 minutes.
I detest 'found footage' movies, because when I sit down to watch a movie, I want to be properly entertained by a movie with proper cinematography, and not watching a questionable hand-held shaky camera recording that I could have filmed better myself with my own digital video camera.
Some of us suffered through director Eduardo Sánchez's "Exists" movie, so you don't have to.
My rating of "Exists" lands on a two out of ten stars. It would have gotten a one star rating, if it wasn't for the intense last 20 minutes of the movie.
When I sat down here in 2023 to watch the 2014 movie "Exists" from writers Jamie Nash and Eduardo Sánchez, I only knew that it was a movie about bigfoot. And already with that fact there was an alarm going off at the back of my mind, because the vast majority of movies I've seen revolving around bigfoot or sasquatch have been of questionable quality. So I have to admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations or hopes to "Exists".
The storyline in the movie is pretty straight forward, and yeah this is just another 'found footage' movie. On the plus side, if you enjoy 'found footage' movies then you're in for a treat. However, if you, much like me, enjoy proper movie and not something you could have filmed yourself, then you might want to skip "Exists". In fact, if you opt to sit down and watch "Exists", just watch the last 20 minutes of the movie, because the 61 minutes prior to that was just pointless filler of showing glimpses and out of focus shots of the bigfoot in between your archetypical young people venturing into the remote forest.
This was a very generic and stereotypical movie in every sense, and by no means a memorable moment in cinema history.
Visually then "Exists" wasn't something to write home about. Throughout the first 61 minutes of the movie, all you get are hazy, out of focus, obscured by darkness and brief glimses of the creature in question. And that is something you would expect from a low budget early 1980s horror movie, not something from 2014. However, during the last 20 minutes of the movie, things start to pick up, and you get proper footage of the bigfoot. And I have to say that the costume was actually not too shabby. But by then, it was just too little, too late, because you've will have been lulled into a comatose state by the previous 61 minutes.
I detest 'found footage' movies, because when I sit down to watch a movie, I want to be properly entertained by a movie with proper cinematography, and not watching a questionable hand-held shaky camera recording that I could have filmed better myself with my own digital video camera.
Some of us suffered through director Eduardo Sánchez's "Exists" movie, so you don't have to.
My rating of "Exists" lands on a two out of ten stars. It would have gotten a one star rating, if it wasn't for the intense last 20 minutes of the movie.